RDO cooking question

[Goritude]

How do I cook recipes in Red Dead Online ? Do I have to go to open campfires ?

[globefish23]

Yes, you need a campfire for cooking food or preparing tonics.
You can use the campfire in your camp, or any of the ones out in the wild.

Check out this interactive map to find them:
https://jeanropke.github.io/RDOMap/

In addition to those fixed campfires on the map, randomly appearing gang hideouts, bootlegger camps/roadblocks, bounty target hideouts, etc. can also contain campfires.

[Goritude]

The campfire in my camp ? All recipes are gray. Yet I'm pretty sure I have herbs and meat in my inventory.

[globefish23]

Originally posted by Goritude:

The campfire in my camp ? All recipes are gray. Yet I'm pretty sure I have herbs and meat in my inventory.

That's weird.
If you have the meat, you should always be able to cook the plain recipe.
You can select the other recipes by pressing left or right, and if you have the respective herbs (thyme, mint, oregano) they shouldn't be greyed out either.

[clif9710]

A couple of things re campfires in my experience...not all campfires can be used and sometimes you have to move around the fire a bit to find a place where it will give you the option to rest by it.

[globefish23]

Originally posted by clif9710:

A couple of things re campfires in my experience...not all campfires can be used and sometimes you have to move around the fire a bit to find a place where it will give you the option to rest by it.

True, there are several fires throughout the world that look perfect for cooking, but only the classic ones on the ground with rocks around it seem to count.

And yes, especially the deluxe campfire upgrade has benches an stools in the way in some placed.

[Artok]

Originally posted by Goritude:

The campfire in my camp ? All recipes are gray. Yet I'm pretty sure I have herbs and meat in my inventory.

There's a toggle between known and all recipes that shows the grey ones (may be E by default)

[Goritude]

Ok it seems I can't cook the mint meats because these recipes require special meat, not the meat from the usual animals you hunt.

[Erynar]

Originally posted by Goritude:

Ok it seems I can't cook the mint meats because these recipes require special meat, not the meat from the usual animals you hunt.

Online at least, you can cook _any_ meat as plain meat of whatever variety it is, and you can season any meat with either oregano, mint, or thyme. I thought that it was the same in single player, but it's been a while since I played single player, so I'm not sure. Either way, I'm unaware of there being any meat in the game that you don't hunt for, fish for, or buy from the butcher, and AFAIK, the meat you buy from the butcher is the same as the meat you hunt for or fish for (though I haven't paid much attention to what he sells, since it's so easy to get meat from hunting that it's rather silly to buy it from him; I just sell to butchers and never buy from them).

[Goritude]

Strange because I have many raw meats and wild mint. Why can't I cook them together ?